Chapter planning

Possible bits of chapter six:

Introduction
Fitting models to observations
-Initial idea of fitting
--Fitting 250eV protons, photons and electrons to single energy input
--fitting protons, photons and electrons to upper Grodent curve
--More advanced versions incl. elec. pa distributions, photon scattering
--Reasons for inclusion/exclusion - chemistry of above
-Makenzie's observations
--Grodent model fit and assumptions discussion
--Defficiencies and possibilities (pa, composition etc)
Results
Discussion

Back in chap. 5, inclusion of excited states should be done through parameterisation of the ionisation rate through the average electron energy.

There are two Rees models, both very similar, both based on the same concept as the photon model and therefore both very easy to use in chapter 5...

Have now acquired all quantities required for Rees1 and 2 asides from lambdas that need digitising. Tomorrow, will be calculating (having gotten over the cgs units problem...).

...continuing...

Text:
Modelling
-RIDE ovation
--Introduction/RIDE validation - done!
--Parameterisation validation and examples
Results
-CTIP runs with Tiros and with RIDE-O
Discussion
Conclusions

Figures:
5.1 - TIROS original schematic
5.2 - TIROS with additions
5.3 - example standard ionisation output (per unit mass etc)
5.4 - example adjusted standard profile (ionisation rates)
5.5 - cross-sections over the energy range
5.6 - Schematic of RIDE Ovation
5.7 - Validation of terrestrial RIDE
5.8 - validation of parameterisartion
5.9 - example standard plot
5.10 - examples of output plots
...and so on

Tables:
5.4 - ...?
...and so on (probably including later results)

Have been going through all the comments in Chapter two and seeing a few amusing mistakes Alan has made (on top of those I have made - Spritzer is not an IR space telescope - Spitzer is, Spritzer is a drink...). We will have to battle it out over the biophysics though...

...all minor revisions done, but a few big ones to save for another day.

One comment was a request to expand on something - which is differences between ion production between electrons and protons. Hmmm. I will do two trios of examples in the ever exandable Makenzie chapter, which is about fitting particle outputs to observations. I will show the effects of 100eV protons, photons and electrons, then try to recreate a 10keV maxwellian proton ionisation profile with electrons and photons (seperately) to show the differences. This will be using the primary rather than secondary beam, but with also notes on 3D effects etc.

More of the same

Chapter four:
1,193 -> 2,950

A quick one, but nevertheless full. I have extended the paper to include all the bits cut out to fit the thing in the GRL format. Although this is the shortest chapter, it is probably the most complete as I doubt Alan will cut it up as much as the rest. I will be including a few extra graphs and tables, which means the captions and bodies will increase the word count. Not too much, but enough.

One graph, of course, remains undone - the Grodent one. As the Thesis is almost up to speed, this can be started... and when I say almost, I think I could do a paragraph on Jupiter... may as well.

Chapter six:
0 -> 888

Total:
25,432 -> 28,077
46.795%

I guess that's about it for the writing at the moment. Though I can put extra bits in, they would be slow and really dependant on the results that go in there - which is the thing to work on next.

First, a restatement of how things stand:

Introduction:
5,549
Chapter 2:
7,512
Chapter 3:
7,173
Chapter 4:
2,950
Chapter 5:
3,995
Chapter 6:
888

I will need to move sensitivities from Chapter three back to chapter 4 to balance them. May also shift the Jovian validation too... Maybe even the terrestrial one... just leave protons and photons in three. Photons (investigation into the effect of scattering, plus Chapman function and validation) could go into Chapter six too. At least I'll cool the ardour of Chapter three (plus make it easier to complete).

ok, have started on further interpolation of the Grodent atmosphere...